Chest Tube-Delivered Bupivacaine Improves Pain and Decreases Opioid Use After Thoracoscopy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1040-1047

  Demmy, Todd L ^a   Nwogu, Chukwumere ^a   Solan, Patrick ^a   Yendamuri, Saikrishna ^a   Wilding, Gregory ^a   DeLeon, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; FENTANYL; KETOROLAC; OPIATE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NURSE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RIB; SILASTIC TUBE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUPIVACAINE; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; FENTANYL; HUMANS; INTERPLEURAL ANALGESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 62649137163     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.099     Document Type: Article

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